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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group
For the first time, the federal government has issued guidelines on attempting to avoid HIV infection after accidental exposure to the virus outside of the health care workplace.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-issued guidelines call for a 28-day course of a three-drug regimen of highly active antiretroviral therapy, but only if a high-risk exposure occurred within 72 hours of treatment initiation (MMWR 2005;54[RR02]:1-20).
The guidelines define high-risk exposures as those that occur through unprotected sex, condom breakage or slippage, sexual assault, the sharing of injection-drug equipment, or an accident with...
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